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ECom-IComp Experts Address Series (2011-2012)
The ECom-IComp experts address series is designed primarily
to keep students and alumni of our programme up-to-date with the information
technology and electronic business trends around the world. We invite our
eminent overseas instructors and distinguished guests to give the public address, which forms an
important part of the learning process, and also facilitates our programme
participants to network with local industry and business leaders. Instructors
and guests can also present unusual topics they are passionate about or which they think
deserve more public attention.
Professor Norman Sadeh
Director, Mobile Commerce Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, e-Supply Chain Management Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Co-Director, COS PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
29 May 2012 (Tuesday)
7pm - 8pm
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Room 613, United Centre
Admiralty
Hong Kong |
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Smart phones and tablets are rapidly establishing themselves as
indispensable tools for a growing segment of the workforce. In the
process, they are also forcing organizations to revisit many of their
security policies and to confront difficult tradeoffs between
productivity and security. Mobile devices also make it particularly easy
and tempting for users to break across security boundaries. Our research
shows that while users have been quick to adopt many of the new usage
scenarios and applications that come along with these devices, their
understanding of vulnerabilities associated with them remains rather
limited.
This presentation will review some of the main security
vulnerabilities associated with poor end-user decisions and discuss the
types of strategies and best practices one can realistically hope to
teach everyday smart phone users. One obvious challenge in this area is
to determine how much users can effectively be expected to learn and to
what extent security policies and technologies can realistically make up
for those areas where training may be impractical or insufficient. A
related challenge has to do with the diversity of devices, technologies
and environments, the wide variety of usage scenarios mediated by smart
phones today and the many vulnerabilities they entail.
The second part of this presentation will introduce a set of learning
science principles and training tools we have developed to help train
users to adopt safer smart phone practices. This will include a
discussion of how we have prioritized learning objectives and designed
training tools to focus on these objectives.
The presentation will include results from research conducted by the
speaker at the Mobile Commerce Lab at Carnegie Mellon University as well
as work conducted at Wombat Security Technologies. |
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